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Sabotage not backhoes: More cable cuts

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sun Sep 14 02:28:03 2003 
Someone climbed a 15-foot tower in Southern Arizona cutting a fiber optic
cable used by Broadwing and Tucson Electric Power.  This was within five
feet of the 138,000-volt power line.  The site was also guarded by barbed
wire.

This is not your typical backhoe.

Rural areas have long dealt with the occasional shotgun damaged cable or
microwave horn; or the farmer burying the dead cow in the back pasture.
But I don't recall two reported acts of sabotage in less than 30 days
before.

http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/stories/KMSB_local_fiberoptic_091203.9d8bc6ae.html